About Dave Cooke

Dave Cooke is a dad on a mission. His mission is to help parents get control of their lives over the powerful, destructive influences of a child's addiction. As the father of a son in a ten year heroin battle, Dave knows all to well the challenges parents and families face. He also knows there is a way to find peace in the chaos. It is his mission to help parents discover their path to a healthier, balanced life even if a child's active addiction is still part of their daily journey.

September 4, 2014

Motivation is overrated

“Our inner voice possess the greatest insights to our desires and our soul, we need to respond to its direction more than anything else.” ~ DC The drive and desire to do or accomplish anything really has very little to do with motivation. What puts that call to action in front of us in the […]

Uncategorized
August 25, 2014

Shift Your Focus

“Crying! So sad! Eleven years dealing with my child’s addiction! First, clean then relapsing. All of this has torn me apart! Who am I anymore? So sad! So depressed! I feel guilty because I no longer have the faith I used to have that they will get clean and stay that way. I’m so so […]

Parenting and Addiction, Uncategorized
August 18, 2014

Thoughts and perspectives on “The Joey Song”

“Once upon a time I was just a regular mom, stumbling through parenthood like everyone else—and then I had to figure out how to be the mom of an addict. I had to figure out how to love my child without helping to hurt him, how to grieve the loss of my child who’s still alive without dying, and how […]

Parenting and Addiction
August 11, 2014

There is Power in Our Struggle

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 There have been many times where I have said to myself, “I cannot […]

Parenting and Addiction
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